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"one of the historic missions of cities, those marvelously productive and efficient places, is to finance colonization."

"when we are in touch with all our emotions...we are more verb than noun."

" the earth itself calling for our attention and affection, our care and action. Her sorrows are being felt in our bodies; we sense them in our minds..."

Despite Egan's in-depth research this book was a slog that I only finished BC it was the only English book I had on me on a remote island

This keeps dragging on my god

I need this book to end. It's so repetitive. But I'm too far gone.

"So many persons go about their everyday lives so immersed- deeply situated- in the digital representations of the world we live in, they begin to mistake their flat-screen representations of the world for the world itself."

" we cannot successfully address the physical global climate change facing us until we have a cultural climate change."

"I must not spend the Summer alone, taking strange walks and trying to electrocute myself." Queer existence in a nutshell

Can't be a book about Iranian Torontonians without wilket Creek ❤️

Today my partner read our 5 month old nephew excerpts from this book. He started to cry very shortly. Which is also how I feel about this book 200 pages in. It is so effing repetitive 😭

Omg we get it Jane. You hate parks and love streets.

Is Delaney just the abolitionist version of JJ?

K but I want a book that explains how folks like Ebenezer Howard, the Decentrists and asshat Harry Anslinger got listened to and became the spokes peopke for centuries on their respective topics. Because if we know that we can heal society.

"there are lies in dreams too"

25 pages in and this is already excellent

Gonna make shirts that day "I'm horny for Zapatista agrarian law"

Everytime I give an old white man author a chance I end up reading a book where women don't speak, they only giggle and men get all sad that they have to beat their mistress for 15 pages. This is swill and only 119 pages thank god bc I'm incapable of bailing on books.